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Author
Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The NEW cosy crime novel from million-copy-selling author Leigh Russell! Emily and Poppy are living happily in the quaint village of Ashton Mead, where every household is friendly - with one exception. Unlike the other villagers, Silas Strang and his mother have a bad reputation. Rude and aggressive, they terrorise their neighbours and no one stops them. That is until Silas sets his sights on Emily's beloved dog Poppy, which Emily won't stand for....
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
'Boss, we've got a body...' Hardly what Detective Inspector Jack Dylan needs to hear on his day off, especially in the middle of house-hunting with his wife, Jen . Detective Sergeant Vicky Hardacre greets him at the scene, and what awaits them behind the blood-red door of Colonial House is undoubtedly a murder. Dylan is quick to identify several prime suspects but before the killer can be caught, another body is discovered, half-rotted and abandoned...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
There are no easy choices when the dark clouds gather DI Shona Oliver’s past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate - now a famous actor - comes to the area to make a Robert Burns biopic. Shona is tasked with keeping him safe during filming on an isolated island in the Solway Firth, and her job is made much harder when a dead man wearing James’s coat is found on the beach in suspicious circumstances. It seems someone wanted James...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet--reasoned the detective--like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down n the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go back. But evenin these safest...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the gritty DI Ridpath Crime Thriller series and discover the dark underbelly of Manchester. Includes the first three books; Where the Truth Lies , Where the Dead Fall and Where the Silence Calls Where the Truth Lies : DI Thomas Ridpath was once a promising detective in the Manchester CID who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he's recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police....
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Five novels of action and suspense in one volume, featuring the special forces veteran who’s now a lawyer--but still combat-ready. Unleashed An ex-SAS captain fights back and survives a violent attack in his quiet Scottish village--only to wind up with himself and his family in the crosshairs of a vengeful Glaswegian gangster . . . Violation When Adam Black learns he’s the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, the puzzling legacy is shrouded...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The lives of five strangers collide on a London train carriage, as they become involved in an incident that will change them all forever. A shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original new thriller from Will Carver...
'One of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express
'Unlike anything you'll read this year' Heat
'Move the hell over Brett Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk ... Will Carver...
Author
Series
Paradise volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irene Steele's idyllic life-house, husband, family-is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene flies down to the beautiful Caribbean beaches of St. John...
Author
Series
Bakeshop mystery volume 2
Publisher
St Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's autumn in Ashland, Oregon--'tis the season for a spiced hot apple cider with a serving (or two) of Torte's famous peach cobbler. It's also the perfect time for Jules Capshaw to promote her family's beloved bake shop by competing in The Pastry Channel's reality show, Take the Cake. The prize is $25,000. But as Jules quickly learns, some people would kill for that kind of dough. Literally. Then, just as Jules dusts off her Bavarian Chocolate Cake...
91) Jackal: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies' maid in the upper-most echelons of 1910 New York City society. When her mistress, Charlotte Benchley, surprises the family by getting engaged to notorious society playboy Norrie Newsome, Jane understands how the engagement might have come to pass, and what it means for both families. And when Norrie is suddenly and gruesomely murdered, Jane is uniquely positioned to understand who might have...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
Author
Publisher
Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
95) The mist
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever"--...
Author
Series
Vera Kelly volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's spring 1971 and P.I. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing--her father is already engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no indication of return. Max, who hasn't seen her family since they threw her out at the age of twenty-two, prepares...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Distracted by revelations about her husband's affair, writer Agatha Christie is interrupted during a visit to her London literary agent by an insidious blackmailer seeking to manipulate her into committing a murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Language
English
Description
In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer’s house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker’s day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker’s enthusiasm has...
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer’s house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker’s day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker’s enthusiasm has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
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